I'm sharing my top four tips on how to use comparisonitis to your advantage and turn this negative feeling into a positive one instead! Comparing ourselves with others is something that we all struggle with, especially when it comes to making and creating. So let's learn to turn this into a positive feeling instead!

If you're anything like me you have piles and piles of bits and pieces in your art stash. I'm sharing a really simple way of to organise your paper stash and actually get it used!

Collecting these pieces is amazing but soon your paper that you collected for inspiration and to use in your art journal. Follow my simple suggestions and soon you won't be stuck for ideas whenever you open your mixed media journal!

Gesso is a supply that I think is often overlooked or only thought of as a basic prepping supply. But that is really doing this amazing medium a big disservice. I love to use gesso in lots of different ways in my art journals and I am sharing a really great background idea with you here in this video.

I wanted share this time lapse video with you guys today in my altered book art journal to show you that it’s totally possible to create something gorgeous and colorful without cracking the lid off a single tube of paint!

Sometimes when I sit down I just can't help myself and I have to throw everything but the kitchen sink in it. I try to restrain myself but then I remember it's my journal to do as I dang well please. I had a lot of fun with this spread!

Stamp it up!

I'm using Roben-Marie Smith's Mixed Media Essentials stamp set for this spread and I have to say, it's one of my favourites. I may be a little biased though! (Love you Roben-Marie!) This stamp set has a great collection of small and larger hero image stamps and you get some great options in the sheet.

New Favourite Supply

It seems like every other week I have a new favourite supply but I am really in love with this new ink I bought from Windsor and Newton. The color is Carmine and it is the most amazing shade of pink magenta and it is super saturated. Blending it with water on this page did nothing to dull it's vibrancy, totally in love!

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Black is often a color which is overlooked when working with our mixed media projects. With so many other amazing colors available, it's easy to do.

Join me as we delve into the dark side of mixed media! Working with only a few supplies, let’s explore a variety of ways black and its values can be used to create a gorgeous, layered art journal page.

more tutorials to enjoy

Sometimes I think that the word "Ephemera" is thrown around so much in the mixed media and art journaling world that it can become a confusing "jargon" word for many people. So I wanted to take a minute to break it down and show you exactly what it is and what a great (and free!) supply it can be!)

The Moon Child Mini art Journal class is a new mixed media class offered here on my site. This class walks you through creating your own moon themed journal spread. We cover building painty layers, stenciling and hand lettering just as a start!

When it comes to time, no matter how creative we are, we just can't make more of it! So we have to make the most of the time that we do have available to us when we sit down to create. I'm sharing four tips here on how to make the most of your art journal time by using a few simple tools and steps to get more out of those precious minutes we can grab.

Join me for an art journal tutorial using Stencilgirl Stencils and products from Lindy's Stamp Gang!I'm creating a journal page using Roxanne Coble's stencils but using some really bold and bright colours instead. I had a lot of fun getting into some old skool embossing and doddling in lot's of details.

We've all been there right? A page starts out OK but then very quickly decends into pure ugliness. This happened to me recently when I picked out one of the worst colors in my paint repertoire and there was a lot of work to get it somewhere I was happy with.

just keep going

I think that the most important thing to remember when working through the ugly phase is to remember that it is just a phase and you can reach the other side. There are lots of ways to work through it and for this time around I relied on my old friend, gesso to dilute the color and push it back again before moving on.

start over again

Remember, this is just paper and paint, everything can be fixed. Either by adding layers of more paint on top or even by painting over completley with gesso and starting from scratch. This is YOUR journal page and you can do what you dang well please.

Don't forget to subscribe!

Please don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel if you haven't already. That way you can be sure to not miss any tutorials that are coming up this month and many more to come!

Black is often a color which is overlooked when working with our mixed media projects. With so many other amazing colors available, it's easy to do.

Join me as we delve into the dark side of mixed media! Working with only a few supplies, let’s explore a variety of ways black and its values can be used to create a gorgeous, layered art journal page.

more tutorials to enjoy

Sometimes I think that the word "Ephemera" is thrown around so much in the mixed media and art journaling world that it can become a confusing "jargon" word for many people. So I wanted to take a minute to break it down and show you exactly what it is and what a great (and free!) supply it can be!)

The Moon Child Mini art Journal class is a new mixed media class offered here on my site. This class walks you through creating your own moon themed journal spread. We cover building painty layers, stenciling and hand lettering just as a start!

When it comes to time, no matter how creative we are, we just can't make more of it! So we have to make the most of the time that we do have available to us when we sit down to create. I'm sharing four tips here on how to make the most of your art journal time by using a few simple tools and steps to get more out of those precious minutes we can grab.

Join me for an art journal tutorial using Stencilgirl Stencils and products from Lindy's Stamp Gang!I'm creating a journal page using Roxanne Coble's stencils but using some really bold and bright colours instead. I had a lot of fun getting into some old skool embossing and doddling in lot's of details.

There is nothing I love more than messy, painty fingers. There's something about getting your hands right in there when creating and this art journal spread is the perfect mix of this!

Gesso gesso gesso

I use a lot of gesso in this journal spread but not just to prepare my pages for paint like you would expect. I use it as a white paint here for sections of the page and also to blend my sections together. Gesso is a great medium, so versatile!

scribble your thoughts

I love adding in snippets of journaling to my pages but it can be hard to share anything too personal online. So I like to make sure that I write things in a really messy and hard to read way. I can just about make it out but often it's just a feeling or whatever ever is going through my mind at the time of creation. Give it a try next time you're creating!

Don't forget to subscribe!

Please don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel if you haven't already. That way you can be sure to not miss any tutorials that are coming up this month and many more to come!

Black is often a color which is overlooked when working with our mixed media projects. With so many other amazing colors available, it's easy to do.

Join me as we delve into the dark side of mixed media! Working with only a few supplies, let’s explore a variety of ways black and its values can be used to create a gorgeous, layered art journal page.